WASHINGTON (CBSDC)  A new study has found 28 percent of journalism graduates wish they had chosen another field.

An annual survey of graduates by the University of Georgias Grady College said it seems likely that some graduates would be unhappy with their career choice regardless of which one they had selected.

One in 20 of the journalism and mass communication graduates indicated that he or she had selected the field without ever intending to go into it.

It would be interesting to see the number of grads of any profession, that were sorry for their chosen major.

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posted on 08/19/2013 11:56:21 AM PDT
by DoughtyOne
(This post coming to you today, from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)

From what I’ve seen of recent journalism grads I don’t think any of them have the intellectual chops to do anything else. Where else are they going to go? There’s already a surfeit of sanctimonious, clueless busybodies out there. Oh, I guess they could all be ObamaCare ‘navigators’ or TSA agents.

I’d published some very successful articles in the local paper. Because it had no conservative voice, I proposed an editorial page column. The editor was appalled. She told me that only “specially educated” people who were actual employees of the paper could be trusted to write on politics. She implied that only those people understood politics. Then, she showed me an entire wall of file boxes and told me that they’d advertised for a reporter and those were the resumes they’d received from journalism majors...hundreds...at least.

I realized that the nations colleges were turning out hundreds of times the journalists required by the declining dinosaur media. Most of those students will be paying down student loans for decades while working a menial day job. They all wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein, which, judging by the paper’s writing, is a gotcha-style of journalism that creates the impression of a Watergate scandal for every local event regardless of how mundane it is.

“I suspect that many Journalism students are realizing they are a dime a dozen chasing very few jobs. “

I don’t believe they realize there are no jobs until they get into (or attempt to get into) the real world. I know the local college, FSU, is misleading students that there is a bright, bright future for them if they just get this degree in (underwater basket weaving, juggling, gender studies, black studies, journalism, etc.)

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